by mistertroll » Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:02 pm
Like Peeve, I've been trying to save most of my comments on tunage for the review process, partly because I was under the impression that was the general consensus of what we wanted to do once we got the process up and running, rather than reviewing them in the forum. I've been doing reviews again lately, as have a few other people, evidenced by the fact that I did receive one review of a tune recently. There is really a pretty small handful of people who have done a significant number of reviews, just as we have a pretty small core group keeping the forum alive. I think Stebs has reviewed every tune in the queue, and cj may have. I'm only at about 90, but I'm trying to chip away with a few every week to catch up. Is there somewhere on-site to go and see in one place who has done how many reviews? I think that would be handy, at least for me.
I sent Kim a pm asking for her approval to post the newest tune on FB, which I assumed would imply my approval of the quality of the tune. I posted a link to it on my personal and music pages on 3/9. Unfortunately, posting our AP player on FB just shows up as a link to the site, rather than a player with the song title and artist, at least on the browser that I use. It does go to the song, but the way it displays does not give readers a clue to that. It got one "Like" on each page (one of them from our old friend Roxybeast). CJ may be able to go in somewhere and find out how many listens it got. I had hoped that with 4500 Facebook Friends and 1800 Fans, there would be a mini-stampede, but apparently that's not the case. I've got 3,000 business cards out there with the AP link on them, and those don't seem to have generated a lot of excitement either.
I'm occasionally tempted to think we are riding a dinosaur here, as most of the peer review sites I have been familiar with have folded. I can't even find c0ncensus.com anymore, although it may just be that it's been so long since I visited that I'm not remembering the proper address for it. I'm certainly not ready to give up on what we are doing here, but it seems that we need some kind of a hook to get people in here.
I'm still buying lottery tickets, with part of my dream being throwing some funds towards making AP into a contender for interwebnet musical attention. Word of mouth, internet-style, is really the only publicity we have access to presently.
We need an internet equivalent of running naked through the streets, screaming "Look at me! Look at me!".
Keep your booger hook off the bang switch and nobody gets hurt.